Photo courtesy Dave Atcheson
Coho, or silver salmon, run in the Kenai River throughout the fall and are popular with anglers.
By Dave Atcheson
We all know the Chinook is the undisputed king and sockeye salmon fill our freezers, but I don’t believe Oncorhynchus Kisutch, or the silver... [ READ MORE... ]

The egg sucking leech, a staple for every Alaskan's fly box - Photo: Jenny Weis
By: Eric Booton
This holiday season give the gift of learning, opportunity and fly fishing to Alaska High School Students!
For the past 8 years Tim Lussow, a biology teacher at Colony High School, has helped... [ READ MORE... ]

(Photo by Matt Smythe)
By MARK HIERONYMUS
Sept. 23 marked the official end of summer and the beginning of fall, but in Southeast Alaska words like “summer” and “fall” are less about the calendar and more about the level of activity. While fall is the cooling off period, summers full of salmon bring... [ READ MORE... ]

By Paula Dobbyn
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Mount Polley mine disaster in British Columbia, Canada’s worst mine-related disaster. The tailings dam breach on Aug. 4, 2014, sent some 6.6 billion gallons of mine waste water and sludge into lakes and streams leading to the Fraser... [ READ MORE... ]

(Photo courtesy of Mark Kaelke)
After nine months of meetings, a federally-appointed panel charged with reviewing timber management on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has released a set of recommendations that include some significant conservation gains.
The Tongass Advisory Committee concluded... [ READ MORE... ]

TU’s Transboundary Rivers campaign recently wrapped up a whirlwind trip to Seattle, Vancouver, and Williams Lake, British Columbia (B.C.) that included meetings with First Nations, non-governmental organizations working on mining reform, and with B.C. government officials. Williams Lake is the... [ READ MORE... ]

Fly fishing in the Tongass National Forest. Photo: Paula Dobbyn
by Cindy Shogun
Last week, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before the Senate Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee to discuss the 2016 Forest Service budget request. And in the midst of back-and... [ READ MORE... ]

Logging in southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest made news again this week when Sen. Lisa Murkowski questioned Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell about why he isn’t doing more to boost timber harvesting in the 17-million-acre rain forest.
Despite fisheries and tourism serving as the centerpiece... [ READ MORE... ]